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Category Archives: Library
All the Way Bach: The Music Students Club
On October 7 of 1883, three women met in the Episcopal rectory on 3rd Street to enjoy a musical afternoon. Celestine Fejervary, who was trained in voice, organ, and piano, Miss Gertrude Wilkinson, who also sang, and Mrs. David Garrett, … Continue reading
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Tagged Local History, Music, Musicians, new resources, The Music Student's Club
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Save the Date! October Offerings: Intro to Electronic Subscription Databases for Genealogy
The Davenport Public Library subscribes to several electronic genealogy databases for our patrons’ research needs, including: Ancestry HeritageQuest Fold 3 Origins Genealogy Bank and Access Newspaper Archive You don’t even have to come down to our Special Collections Center to … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, Library, Local History
Tagged Databases, Genealogy, library, Local History, Programs, Resources
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Save the Date! Genealogy Night!
Have you been looking for your Great-great-aunt Ethel’s gravesite for so long, you suspect she’s still alive somewhere, snickering at your efforts to find her? We in the Special Collections Center of the Davenport Public Library understand. And we are … Continue reading
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Tagged Genealogy, Genealogy Night, Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center
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Main Street Branch Opening Late – July 27, 2013!
The Davenport Public Library – Main Street branch including the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections department will be opening at 1:00 p.m. this Saturday, July 27, 2013 due to the Bix 7 race that morning. Eastern and Fairmount branches will be open … Continue reading
A Panoramic Peek: The Oak Knoll Mansion
Those of you who subscribe to the Quad-City Times may have seen the recent articles by Alma Gaul concerning the historical Oak Knoll mansion and its designer Jens Jensen. The articles (here and here, if you missed them), include several … Continue reading
Library Closed for the Fourth!
The Davenport Public Library will be closed on Thursday, in celebration of the Fourth of July. We will resume our regular hours on Friday, July 5th.
Library Leadership: Directors We Have Known
In honor of National Library Week, we thought we’d take a look at those who have led the Davenport Public Library over the past 111 years. Even with this brief amount of information, it’s interesting to note how the education, … Continue reading
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Tagged biography, C. Daniel Wilson, directors, Edna Geisler, Elizabeth Martin, Grace Delphine Rose, Grace Shellenberger, Harold Goldstein, Judith Ellis, Kay Runge, KennethWayne Thompson, LaWanda Roudebush, Library staff, Marilla Waite Freeman, Meg Sarff, Oswald H. Joerg, Stella V. Seybold
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Marshal-ing our Resources
Recently, we explained how we uncovered that the man we—and everyone else—had thought was the first City Marshal of Davenport . . . wasn’t. But this had us researching what the City Marshal—a position that no longer exists—originally did, and when he stopped … Continue reading
If At First You Don’t Know . . .
Sometimes all it takes is one misprint to throw our sense of history off for over 131 years. For at least that long, it was believed that George Colt was the first City Marshal of Davenport. This was reinforced by … Continue reading
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Tagged City Council, City Marshal, George Colt, Iowa Sun, Just Shelved, Primary Sources, Research, W. H. Patton
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Second Sunday is Coming Up!
Our Special Collections Center will be open this Sunday (March 10th) from 1-4 pm for genealogy and local history research only—the rest of the Main library will not be open. Walk in through the Fourth Street door (behind the big … Continue reading
